The Iowa NSF EPSCoR project ran from 2011 – 2017 and was a joint effort by Iowa’s Regent universities: the University of Iowa, University of Northern Iowa, and Iowa State University.

The goal of the five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation was to build Iowa’s research capacity in renewable energy and energy efficiency. The Iowa Power Fund, a state program supporting energy innovation and independence, granted the project $2 million. Iowa NSF EPSCoR was a state-wide effort.

Note: This Website serves as a reference and archive for the Iowa NSF EPSCoR program and replaces the site used during the program. This site contains almost all of the content of the old site, and more. Please use the menus (above) or the search function (below) to find content.

Bioenergy Research

Researchers investigated both the challenges of producing large quantities of biomass in a sustainable manner and the unanswered questions of how to transport, store and utilize biomass within the current electric power plant infrastructure built in the last century to exploit fossil energy resources.

Energy Utilization Research

Researchers studied the critical role that social sciences play in improving energy efficiency sufficiently for diffuse renewable energy resources to replace our profligate expenditure of fossil fuels.

Energy Policy Research

Broader Impacts

Iowa NSF EPSCoR focused on efforts to prepare a workforce and broaden the participation of women, underrepresented minorities, and first-generation college students in the STEM pipeline, and create a community of scholars who integrate broader impacts into their research effort.

Explore this Website to read more than 500 articles, profiles, news briefs, and pages from Iowa NSF EPSCoR’s history.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number EPS-1101284. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.